A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Tomblins
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Tomblin at one address, 161 West 49th Avenue in Oakridge, in 1940.
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The Tomblins at home
- 1
161 West 49th Avenue
Oakridge, 1940
- C Tomblin, a car repairer at the BC Electric Railway 1940
Next door in 1940: H J Brooke at 143 and T Holman at 177. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a car repairer.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Oakridge. Each neighbourhood's page shows its trades, its people and every street in it, the way the directory printed them.
The story, address by address
In 1940 the directory lists C Tomblin at 161 West 49th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Charles Tomblin there as the householder, a car repairer at the BC Electric Railway.
Today
The City no longer lists 161 West 49th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Tomblin C161 West 49th, p. 265
- Tomblin Chas car repr BCER161 West 49th, p. 615
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Tomblins
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Tomblin name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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Sources
Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line: the street sections for 1905, 1915, 1925, 1935, 1940 and 1945, and the name section for 1930 and 1940 where we've read it (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages, since a family's name was often spelled differently from one year to the next; one name can still be several families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. Many Chinese, Japanese and other residents weren't named by the canvassers, so they can't be listed by name: their houses' pages say where. More family names under T. Want a name removed? Tell us.